If you were in class today, you watched a video on the Battle of Antietam. It was a critical turning point in the Civil War in several ways.
HOMEWORK: Using the notes you took in class, and/or the resources shared below, complete the handout identifying how Antietam was a turning point battle.
RESOURCES:
Ducksters Antietam for Students
Photography and Antietam
Emancipation Proclamation
Reaction to Emancipation - just read about the first part.
How the war affected ordinary Americans (more difficult reading level)
Impact of Civil War photography on opinion (also more difficult)
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Thursday, May 26, 2016
While You Were Out: May 25 and 26
Hi everyone,
Yesterday in class, we completed the notes in your flipnote study booklets. If you were not here, I have attached the PowerPoint so you can complete the booklet or review and check your notes against whatever your friend wrote down.
Early Civil War PowerPoint
Today, we rechecked our understanding of federation and confederation. If you were not here for that, I will do a final retake next Wednesday during Team Time. If you still need to review those concepts, please look at the link posted on May 23rd.
After that, we worked on a map and reading with questions. They are linked below. If you were away, please print them out and complete them ASAP.
US Map
Border States Map Directions and Reading
Yesterday in class, we completed the notes in your flipnote study booklets. If you were not here, I have attached the PowerPoint so you can complete the booklet or review and check your notes against whatever your friend wrote down.
Early Civil War PowerPoint
Today, we rechecked our understanding of federation and confederation. If you were not here for that, I will do a final retake next Wednesday during Team Time. If you still need to review those concepts, please look at the link posted on May 23rd.
After that, we worked on a map and reading with questions. They are linked below. If you were away, please print them out and complete them ASAP.
US Map
Border States Map Directions and Reading
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Final Words: May 24, 2016
Here are a few key reminders:
Your essay is due tomorrow.
If it is not submitted tomorrow, either electronically or in print form, you will receive grades of "No Evidence Submitted" until your essay is turned in.
If your essay is turned in after Wednesday (and that means at 12:00:00.01 am on Thursday), you will be graded without penalty, but you will not be allowed to revise and resubmit your work.
If your essay is going to be late anyway, you are better off taking the time you need to do it well than rushing to get it done, because you will only get one shot.
If you try to submit your essay from the road and it fails to send, it is late and the one-time-only policy holds.
I prefer that you hand in printed copies of your essays, but will accept electronic copies.
If you have any questions, please review the past few blog posts before you email me questions, please.
If I don't get an essay from you by Wednesday, June 1st, I will contact home.
Your essay is due tomorrow.
If it is not submitted tomorrow, either electronically or in print form, you will receive grades of "No Evidence Submitted" until your essay is turned in.
If your essay is turned in after Wednesday (and that means at 12:00:00.01 am on Thursday), you will be graded without penalty, but you will not be allowed to revise and resubmit your work.
If your essay is going to be late anyway, you are better off taking the time you need to do it well than rushing to get it done, because you will only get one shot.
If you try to submit your essay from the road and it fails to send, it is late and the one-time-only policy holds.
I prefer that you hand in printed copies of your essays, but will accept electronic copies.
If you have any questions, please review the past few blog posts before you email me questions, please.
If I don't get an essay from you by Wednesday, June 1st, I will contact home.
Monday, May 23, 2016
Shots Fired - And the Civil War Begins! May 23, 2016
Hi everyone,
Today, we shifted our focus from the events that led up to the Civil War to the Civil War itself! First, we reviewed a critical concept necessary to understand the differences between the Union (United States) and Confederacy (Southern states). Then we started looking at some of the underlying differences between the two sides.
** IF YOU WERE ABSENT TODAY - Please make sure you get the yellow class participation sheet that was handed out today. Review with a friend who was present in class and get the information you need.
The review question we used to begin class is a five-point FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT. You will not get credit for a first-round attempt, but we are going to revisit this question on THURSDAY at the beginning of class.
The question we answered today is, "What is the difference between a federation and a confederation?" Your answer needed to include the words "power," "central government" and "states" or "state government".
If you do not remember the differences and need a refresher, the terms "central government," "federation," and "confederation" are all reviewed in this Quizlet set.
HOMEWORK: Essay due WEDNESDAY
** The question came up, can Montreal travelers wait and submit their essays electronically from the road? The answer is yes, HOWEVER, if I do not receive your essay on Wednesday (regardless of when you sent it), it is late, and you will not have time to revise for a higher grade. I strongly encourage you to finish the essay and submit it before you leave.
Today, we shifted our focus from the events that led up to the Civil War to the Civil War itself! First, we reviewed a critical concept necessary to understand the differences between the Union (United States) and Confederacy (Southern states). Then we started looking at some of the underlying differences between the two sides.
** IF YOU WERE ABSENT TODAY - Please make sure you get the yellow class participation sheet that was handed out today. Review with a friend who was present in class and get the information you need.
The review question we used to begin class is a five-point FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT. You will not get credit for a first-round attempt, but we are going to revisit this question on THURSDAY at the beginning of class.
The question we answered today is, "What is the difference between a federation and a confederation?" Your answer needed to include the words "power," "central government" and "states" or "state government".
If you do not remember the differences and need a refresher, the terms "central government," "federation," and "confederation" are all reviewed in this Quizlet set.
HOMEWORK: Essay due WEDNESDAY
** The question came up, can Montreal travelers wait and submit their essays electronically from the road? The answer is yes, HOWEVER, if I do not receive your essay on Wednesday (regardless of when you sent it), it is late, and you will not have time to revise for a higher grade. I strongly encourage you to finish the essay and submit it before you leave.
Friday, May 20, 2016
Building the Body of the Essay: May 20, 2016
If you want more copies of the Paragraph Organizer, it is linked HERE. Make your own copy to put your info into it!
Hi everyone,
Today we tag-teamed in English and Social Studies to help you with this essay. You had the opportunity to work on your essay intros with Mr. Zakian, and you had work time with me in class to develop your essays.
One of your assessments is on formatting and citations. I am not going to go over MLA format with you in class, so I've attached a video about the basics of MLA if you have questions. Please note, I want the body of the essay DOUBLE SPACED. You can have a title if you want, but you don't have to - I do not care either way.
CITING SOURCES - if you do not use outside sources of your own choosing, you do not need to do a formal Works Cited page. However, you DO need to cite your sources in the body of your essay. Here is how you will do that:
[Name the source by its full title] Give the evidence [Follow with the document ID as (Doc ___)]
What it looks like:
According to the Cotton and Slavery - Production graph, there were 3,957,760 slaves in the United States in 1860 (Doc C).
As Frederick Douglass wrote in "Life of An American Slave," "Mr. Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster," (Doc I).
If you do your own research and quote the info you found, follow the same pattern - put the title of the source at the beginning, and put the general location where you found the source at the end of the sentence:
As the "Path to the Civil War" video states, the election of Abraham Lincoln was a major reason the South broke away from the Union (History.com).
If your source is a book and you name the title, put a page # in parentheses at the end:
As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in Uncle Tom's Cabin, "blah blah blah" (p 61).
Hi everyone,
Today we tag-teamed in English and Social Studies to help you with this essay. You had the opportunity to work on your essay intros with Mr. Zakian, and you had work time with me in class to develop your essays.
One of your assessments is on formatting and citations. I am not going to go over MLA format with you in class, so I've attached a video about the basics of MLA if you have questions. Please note, I want the body of the essay DOUBLE SPACED. You can have a title if you want, but you don't have to - I do not care either way.
CITING SOURCES - if you do not use outside sources of your own choosing, you do not need to do a formal Works Cited page. However, you DO need to cite your sources in the body of your essay. Here is how you will do that:
[Name the source by its full title] Give the evidence [Follow with the document ID as (Doc ___)]
What it looks like:
According to the Cotton and Slavery - Production graph, there were 3,957,760 slaves in the United States in 1860 (Doc C).
As Frederick Douglass wrote in "Life of An American Slave," "Mr. Plummer was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster," (Doc I).
If you do your own research and quote the info you found, follow the same pattern - put the title of the source at the beginning, and put the general location where you found the source at the end of the sentence:
As the "Path to the Civil War" video states, the election of Abraham Lincoln was a major reason the South broke away from the Union (History.com).
If your source is a book and you name the title, put a page # in parentheses at the end:
As Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote in Uncle Tom's Cabin, "blah blah blah" (p 61).
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
ONE WEEK TO GO!! May 18, 2016
Hi everyone,
If you did not turn in your Topic Sentence/Thesis Generator today, please make sure you do that!
The essay is due NEXT WEDNESDAY, May 25th.
The topic is, What were the major causes of the Civil War?
The rubric is on line, look at the May 16th post for the link.
If you did not turn in your Topic Sentence/Thesis Generator today, please make sure you do that!
The essay is due NEXT WEDNESDAY, May 25th.
The topic is, What were the major causes of the Civil War?
The rubric is on line, look at the May 16th post for the link.
Monday, May 16, 2016
Essay Information! May 16 - 18, 2016
Hi everyone,
We are beginning our essay on causes of the Civil War, AND we are heading into testing, so this is going to get interesting....hang tight, and keep checking back here at the blog for updates and information.
Today in class, IF you were done with the Venn diagram assignment for today, you started gathering information and ideas for your essay. If you did not finish the Venn diagram, you may need to do the info-gathering activity on your own. Instructions are below:
1) Take the materials handed out in class today. Stack them by common ideas - all the papers in the stack should share a common idea or topic (not a common format). Identify the common idea. You can create a fourth "I don't know" or "not useful" stack if you want.
2) Put each common idea on the organizer, on the lines marked "Common Theme #___".
3) Go back to your first Common Theme. Review the documents in your stack. Develop your theme into a full sentence - how was this theme a cause of the Civil War? Do this with all three themes. These sentences will be your topic sentences for your body paragraphs.
4) At the bottom of the page, draft a sentence that uses the phrase "causes of the Civil War" and refers to all three of your themes. This will be your draft thesis statement.
ALL students in ALL classes must submit draft thesis statements to me on WEDNESDAY for approval! MOST students (except those in the accelerated groups) must also submit draft topic sentences as well.
RUBRIC IS POSTED HERE.
TOPIC SENTENCE/THESIS GENERATOR IS POSTED HERE.
We are beginning our essay on causes of the Civil War, AND we are heading into testing, so this is going to get interesting....hang tight, and keep checking back here at the blog for updates and information.
Today in class, IF you were done with the Venn diagram assignment for today, you started gathering information and ideas for your essay. If you did not finish the Venn diagram, you may need to do the info-gathering activity on your own. Instructions are below:
1) Take the materials handed out in class today. Stack them by common ideas - all the papers in the stack should share a common idea or topic (not a common format). Identify the common idea. You can create a fourth "I don't know" or "not useful" stack if you want.
2) Put each common idea on the organizer, on the lines marked "Common Theme #___".
3) Go back to your first Common Theme. Review the documents in your stack. Develop your theme into a full sentence - how was this theme a cause of the Civil War? Do this with all three themes. These sentences will be your topic sentences for your body paragraphs.
4) At the bottom of the page, draft a sentence that uses the phrase "causes of the Civil War" and refers to all three of your themes. This will be your draft thesis statement.
ALL students in ALL classes must submit draft thesis statements to me on WEDNESDAY for approval! MOST students (except those in the accelerated groups) must also submit draft topic sentences as well.
RUBRIC IS POSTED HERE.
TOPIC SENTENCE/THESIS GENERATOR IS POSTED HERE.
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